The Cube Is Back!

Mike TurianTuesday, July 09, 2013

he Magic Online Cube returns once more, kicking off after the downtime on July 17th, 2013.

A Magic Online Cube is a selection of a few hundred cards that can span the entire history of Magic. These are divided into fifteen-card “booster packs” for drafting, but there are no multiples of cards—each card is unique in the Cube. Playing a Magic Online Cube is like taking an action-packed tour of Magic’s past.

With the release of Dragon's Maze, Magic R&D has swapped in four new Dragon's Maze cards to the Magic Online Cube:

You can find even more challenges by testing your mettle in the Rise of the Eldrazi Draft Queues in the Limited Queues room. The single elimination Cube queues include Rise of the Eldrazi boosters as part of their prizes.

The Magic Online Cube and the Rise of the Eldrazi booster Draft Queues will start after the downtime on Wednesday, July 17th, and end with the downtime on Wednesday, July 24th.

THE MAGIC ONLINE CUBE DRAFT QUEUES

START TIMES:

On demand after the downtime on Wednesday, July 17th, until downtime on Wednesday, July 24th

LOCATION:

Limited Queues room

ENTRY OPTIONS:

8 Event Tickets OR 2 Event Tickets and 10 Cube Tickets

PRODUCT:

Magic Online will provide 3 Phantom Magic Online Cube booster packs for this event. Cards that players draft and play with in a Phantom event are NOT added to those players' collections.

SIZE:

8 Players

DURATION:

Drafting and deck building time plus 3 rounds, single elimination OR 3 rounds, Swiss pairings, depending on event entered

PRIZES:

Prizes for single-elimination events based on placement at the end of the tournament. Prizes for Swiss pairing events are based on total match points at the end of the tournament. Each match win awards 3 points and each match loss awards 0 points.

The Magic Online Cube Single-Elimination Draft

Place

Prizes

QPs

1st

2 Rise of the Eldrazi booster packs, and 12 Cube Tickets

1

2nd

1 Rise of the Eldrazi booster pack, and 8 Cube Tickets

0

3rd-4th

6 Cube Tickets

0

5th-8th

2 Cube Tickets

0

The Magic Online Cube Swiss Draft

Match Points

Prizes

QPs

9

16 Cube Tickets

1

6

8 Cube Tickets

0

3

4 Cube Tickets

0

0

2 Cube Tickets

0

RISE OF THE ELDRAZI DRAFT QUEUE

START TIMES:

On demand after the downtime on Wednesday, July 17th, until downtime on Wednesday, July 24th

LOCATION:

Limited Queues room

ENTRY OPTIONS:

14 Event Tickets OR 2 Event Tickets plus product

PRODUCT:

3 Rise of the Eldrazi booster packs

SIZE:

8 Players

DURATION:

Drafting and deck building time plus 3 rounds, single elimination

PRIZES:

Prizes for single-elimination events are based on placement at the end of the tournament

Place

Prizes

QPs

1st

4 Rise of the Eldrazi booster packs

1

2nd

3 Rise of the Eldrazi booster packs

0

3rd-4th

2 Rise of the Eldrazi booster packs

0

FULL CUBE CARD LIST

Here is the the full Magic Online Cube card list, now sortable alphabetically by card name, or by card type: